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epaa-537	Narodowski, Mariano	Educational Research in Latin America: A Response to Akkary and Pérez	1999	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3646	160	41	In the words of Garcia Guadilla (1998: pp. 432-433), and in reference to research investigation on higher education: Although a small group of countries has achieved initial institutionalization, the rest of the countries still lack the basics needed to develop this area as a field of study, due to a limited production of research as well as to the nonexistence of research centers and/or specific training to develop autonomously in this area of knowledge 3 of 9 These examples are not directed at refuting the possibility of the existence of a single identity as regards Latin American educational research, but to advance in the idea that that single identity should be more the result of the evidence of an investigation and less an assumption providing a starting point for further work. To sum up, this examination of Latin American educational research reveals a 6 of 9 large amount of divergent studies and diverse theoretical and methodological positions, where a proliferation of metatheoretical studies can be observed.	cache/epaa-537.pdf	txt/epaa-537.txt